From Advancing Music Theory
Objectives
- Students will understand the fundamental concepts of tonality and scales, including terminology like “pentatonic” and “heptatonic.”
- Students will be familiar with concepts of dissonance and consonance in regards to harmony, and with common harmonic terminology such as tertial, quartal, triad and tetrad.
Resources
Class Activities
- Discussion and demonstration of the concepts of tonality and tonal centers
- Discussion and demonstration of scale subsets within a particular tuning system
- Discussion and demonstration of different sizes and types of chords
- Scalar analysis of different melodies
Assignments
- Analysis of a piece of music for tonic, scale
- Analysis of chords (presented aurally or in protonotation)
Assessments
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